Class Note 1970
Issue
January-February 2026
Class Note 1970. We kick off 2026 with a column dedicated to classmates who enjoy the simplicity of having last names with three (or fewer) letters. Yes, one among us has a two-letter last name. Meet classmates—named Bax, Cox, Day, Fox, Nys, and Wen—as well as the only classmate with a two-letter last name, Roland Ng.
Frans Bax was a branch chief in a federal agency in Washington, D.C. Bruce Cox worked for the Unisys Corp. as of our 25th reunion. In 1984 Stephen Cox was directing a Mayan high school in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Jonathan Day spent two years in the Air Force in Thailand and then went to law school at the University of Maryland, which led to becoming a member of the Board of Veteran’s Appeals in Washington, D.C. After college Sean Fay took an eight-month pilgrimage to India to a monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas “to discover the true meaning of life.” He returned to California to pursue a career in sales and marketing.
Doug Fox was in the contracting business in the town of Captain Cook, Hawaii. He also found time to become a barefoot coconut tree-climbing champion. His winning time for walking up the trunk of a 15-foot coconut palm in his bare feet was nine seconds, three-tenths of a second better than a Tonganese man who climbed his first coconut at age 8. Stephen Fox is best known for his TV journalism. He had a long stint as a host on ABC’s Good Morning America.
John Nys got his law degree at Stanford University after accepting a commission in the Navy JAG Corps. After law school he returned to his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, and became a partner at the law firm of Johnson, Kilkenny, Theibodeau & Seiler. George Wen worked for Henry Holt & Co., a publishing firm. And our sole two-letter last name classmate, Roland Ng,is a doctor in Hawaii.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com
Frans Bax was a branch chief in a federal agency in Washington, D.C. Bruce Cox worked for the Unisys Corp. as of our 25th reunion. In 1984 Stephen Cox was directing a Mayan high school in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Jonathan Day spent two years in the Air Force in Thailand and then went to law school at the University of Maryland, which led to becoming a member of the Board of Veteran’s Appeals in Washington, D.C. After college Sean Fay took an eight-month pilgrimage to India to a monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas “to discover the true meaning of life.” He returned to California to pursue a career in sales and marketing.
Doug Fox was in the contracting business in the town of Captain Cook, Hawaii. He also found time to become a barefoot coconut tree-climbing champion. His winning time for walking up the trunk of a 15-foot coconut palm in his bare feet was nine seconds, three-tenths of a second better than a Tonganese man who climbed his first coconut at age 8. Stephen Fox is best known for his TV journalism. He had a long stint as a host on ABC’s Good Morning America.
John Nys got his law degree at Stanford University after accepting a commission in the Navy JAG Corps. After law school he returned to his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, and became a partner at the law firm of Johnson, Kilkenny, Theibodeau & Seiler. George Wen worked for Henry Holt & Co., a publishing firm. And our sole two-letter last name classmate, Roland Ng,is a doctor in Hawaii.
—Stuart Zuckerman, P.O. Box 85, Bridgehampton, NY 11932; (917) 559-0063; stuartz@gmail.com